Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals
Left to right: Gruff Rhys, Guto Pryce and Huw Bunford of the Super Furry Animals at Bridgwater Palace in September 2005.
Background information
Origin	Cardiff, Wales
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, power pop, neo-psychedelia, electronica, Britpop
Years active	1993–2010, 2015–present
Labels	Epic, Creation, Rough Trade, Placid Casual, Flydaddy
Associated acts	Acid Casuals The Earth Ffa Coffi Pawb Neon Neon Gulp The Pale Blue Dots The Peth Zefur Wolves
Website	Official website
Members	Gruff Rhys Huw Bunford Guto Pryce Cian Ciaran Dafydd Ieuan
Past members	Rhys Ifans

Super Furry Animals are a Welsh psychedelic rock band. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian Ciaran (keyboards, synthesisers, various electronics, occasional guitar, vocals) and Dafydd Ieuan (drums, vocals). Actor Rhys Ifans is also a former member.

Super Furry Animals have recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums (one BPI certified Gold and 4 certified Silver), plus numerous singles, EPs, compilations and collaborations.

Over the course of nine albums, Super Furry Animals have been described as "one of the most imaginative bands of our time" by Billboard, while according to a 2005 article in NME, "There's a case to be argued that SFA are the most important band of the past 15 years".

The band formed in Cardiff after being in various other Welsh bands and techno outfits in the area. Ifans, Ieuan and Pryce had been together since the early 1990s and had toured the north coast of France as a techno group. After Bunford and Ciaran (the latter Ieuan's younger brother) joined, they wrote some songs, and in 1995 signed to Ankst, the Welsh indie label. The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music (and art, and literature) in the 1990s: other Welsh bands of the time include the Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Stereophonics and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.